Frank Foster
Frank Rowbotham Foster
Born: 31 January 1889, Deritend, Birmingham, Warwickshire
Died: 3 May 1958, Northampton
Major Teams: Warwickshire, England.
Known As: Frank Foster
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Left Arm Fast Medium
Test Debut: England v Australia at Sydney, 1st Test, 1911/12
Last Test: England v Australia at The Oval, 3rd Test, 1912
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1912
Career Statistics:
TESTS
(career)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 11 15 1 330 71 23.57 0 3 11 0
O M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 407.5 108 926 45 20.57 6-91 4 0 54.3 2.27
FIRST-CLASS
(career: 1908 - 1914)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 159 263 17 6548 305* 26.61 7 35 121 0
Balls R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 33296 14879 717 20.75 9-118 53 8 46.4 2.68
- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.
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Profile:
A fine all-rounder, a superb medium fast left arm bowler, and a
natural hitter. He is best remembered, perhaps for his
partnership with Sid Barnes on the 1911-12 Ashes tour, where
their pairing was all but unstoppable. His bowling was
characterised by pace off the pitch, good length, and generally a
leg stump line, backed by a packed leg-side field. He bowled
mostly left arm round with considerable swing, and could break
the ball back to hit the stumps, but most of his victims were
caught in the leg trap. He was at his best when partnered with
"Tiger" Smith, his county wicket-keeper, who made some
astonishing leg side stumpings from his bowling. He was a free
hitter with the bat, but based on sound foundations. He attacked
the bowling from the outset, and his finest innings was possibly
his triple hundred in a day for his county (a county record that
stood until passed by LaraÕs 501). He had contemplated giving up
first-class cricket in 1911, but on changing his mind, captained
Warwickshire to their first championship. Only 25 when cricket
halted for the first world war, his career was ended by a
war-time motor-cycle accident. "..there was about all his cricket
an atmosphere of supreme confidence and inexhaustible vitality"
wrote HS Altham. (Dave Liverman, 1998)
Last Updated: Friday, 16-Aug-2002 21:13:01 GMT
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